LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

jkt2006 4 top notch directors, not so well known actors but good performances, low on budget but very well made shorts, loved them al!

desax The movie title should be named 4 lonely women in urban india. radhika apte as in previous movies picks up controversial roles and gets attention. The director forgets that teacher teaches in a college or university. other than sex, nothing else is mentioned. apte feels insecure when another girl comes in her student's life. no one else talks about them as if it is a usual relation. i think life of french president is more worthy of a film. while pednekar suits her role, i don't get what was it all about. then the part of koirala comes. then the next story, i don't think any teacher would talk to a parent like that. I give 2 stars because actors look professional, otherwise don't waste your time watching this. in a world where free porn is available 24x7 thanks to a big industry behind it. In the past we had films like devanand's guide, which talked about prostitute, yet here we are with the title lust stories, which is a clever use human trait of Curiosity to get attention, beyond that there is nothing in it. like many other terms in use today, "women sexuality" is only cliche, nothing more. Even in our epics, there is a discussion of women's sexuality. remember shurpanakha in ramayan, who overcome by lust even instigates ravan. ravan full with lust looses his empire, family and life. Whats the point of this film, other than marketing of netflix, to promote its big entry in india and to get more customers.

suvojitmitra-09263 First, this is one of the bravest attempt by popular Bollywood directors, bravest because it has strong erotic content specially in the last storyThis film is a collection of 4 short stories which are all about women sexuality...First one is directed by Anurag Kashyap is the perfectly directed. Where Radhika Apte's statement is not entertaining to listen but have many thing to understand about women desires. Personally I don't admire it. Radhika Apte's acting was spectacular and not questionable! For this story I will give it 3.5/5Second one is directed by Zoha Akther, and this is the weakest story from the film. This is a one sentence story last about 25 mins. But it is not that bad actually. Zoha tried to explain this simple thing by Bhumi Pednekar's eyes. Bhumi does a great job here, She rarely spoke a word but his face revealed so much truths. And we realize it. For this story I will give it 2.5/5Third one is directed by Dibakar Banerjee, and this is the best story among all of this. How women find pleasure when they don't get it from there partner and then they confused about their friend with benefit or lover. I will give it 4/5Fourth one is directed by Karan Johar, it is the most entertaining and hottest story. A woman despite not having sex less than 5 seconds from her partner(Vicky Kaushal) decided to use a vibrator dildo for pleasure. I will give it also 4/5So all over these, all the story say about some women desires men couldn't fulfill and they lost their loves. Something like Lust and Lost love.And my personal quote is we see such films soo much in bollywood talk about women desires, I don't know why bollywood don't make films about those girls who don't like sex, because in my lifetime how many girls I have I met hasn't so interest in sex, So the last character opposite of Vicky Kaushal is very uncommon for me. After all this film will not entertain you but will show you something social. Which a film should do. It is a rarely made bollywood gem

Tanuj Poddar A since the turn of the century, there have been quite a few mainstream anthology films in Bollywood. One of them was Bombay Talkies that was released around Bollywood's centenary year, directed by 4 mainstream directors. The same directors come back together to deliver 'Lust Stories'. While that was pretty much a compilation of stories from different parts of Mumbai, this a step ahead trying to tie stories based on an emotion. Though we did have movies from RGV camp like Darna Manaa Hai and Darna Zaroori Hai, that had Horror as the binding theme, and among them only Darna Zaroori hai had stories from multiple directors, but an attempt like this is a rarity in general. So it was good to see an attempt to bring together different director's take on an emotion, that too one which is understood pretty linearly, but has complicated impact on us as beings.What I find interesting is that while the stories are not connected to each other, the directors chose to not give a name to their stories. So let's explore these segments further.The first story by Anurag Kashyap, shows a college lecturer Kalandi, who has gone through her adolescence without having a fling and is married to someone much older than her and has had more than his share of those. She is encouraged by her husband to be open to explore beyond her marriage and have more stories to say about her life. So to achieve that, she utilizes her authority to become intimate with a student, Tejas. She is trying to be promiscuous, but her behavior is not driven by lust as it is with others. Thus, she can't just have a fling with Tejas without being utterly possessive about him and ends up stalking him, while making her attempts pretty obvious. She realizes her irrationality as she tries to be hopelessly hopeful of being something that she is not, lustful. It was a great script helped by a couple of beautiful songs by Amit Trivedi. Wonderful take on the emotion, or on trying to feign it.Second segment by Zoya is certainly a surprise offering from her. She breaks away her mold to tell the story of Sudha, a household maid of a middle class bachelor Ajit, who is physically intimate with him. Amidst the mundane chores of daily life, she gets her spark from these moments, something she probably looks forward to. Much of the screen time shows her mental state as she crumbles within while holding her composure, assisting in hosting the family of the girl that is going to marry Ajit. In her silence, she curses herself for harboring any feelings of comfort and security, while having always known that this relationship was only defined by Ajit's lust. I think the last scene is the defining moment where she accepts she can't break away from her fate, and is content to accept whatever she was able to get from her relationship that was possible only because of lust. Kudos! to Bhumi, for her portrayal of Sudha.The third segment by Dibakar is a mature take on how lust and other circumstances define how we choose our relationships, which in turn define our lives. As we face existential questions in our lives, we tend to look beyond the quest for excitement that our lust drives and assess how to manage it viz-a-viz our other aspirations in life. While coming of age stories show emancipation through acceptance of the emotion, this one shows emancipation through being able to look beyond it. It is an attempt to put into 30 minutes what could have been a great 2 hours film, thanks to many layers that it unfolds. This brevity snatches the opportunity for character development, leaving a lot to be conveyed through unspoken words. While it tackles the emotion with maximum depth, it was probably not mean for depiction through this medium.The fourth segment by K.Jo has the trademark style of dharma productions written all over it. It is straightforward and loud in tackling the subject, has Neha Dhupia and Kiara Advani driving up the oomph factor in the way they dress up and carry themselves. There isn't much creativity in the depiction of a newlywed wife that wants to satisfy her libido, a naive husband that is oblivious to it and a society that thinks lowly of such urges and a funny scene, adapted from 'The Ugly Truth', incorporated for entertainment. A superficial take on the subject, packaging the obvious connotations that one would attach to the emotion in general conversations in our society.All in all a great attempt to piece together an anthology film, on an emotion that is often depicted with corrupt connotations and vulgarity, thanks to its attachment to one verb that I was able to avoid throughout this review, 'Sex'.